The Scream: a brief history - in pictures

The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's seminal work The Scream has sold for an auction record of $120m (£74m) in New York. It is one of the world's most celebrated, copied – and stolen – paintings

Bought at auction in Sotheby's, New York, for $119.9m (£74m), The Scream will join a select group of works that have sold for more than $100m, including Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, which sold in 2010 for $106.5m. Here, Jonathan Jones analyses its most intriguing details. Roll your cursor over the picture to see them

Edvard Munch's The Scream set a new record for art auction sales at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday when it was sold for $119.9m (£74m). Here are the other nine most expensive works to go under the hammer